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Live World Championships coverage from Preston. The singles quarter-final line-up is decided this afternoon with the completion of the second-round matches. Presented by Dougie Donnelly.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly

The popular series made by and about disabled people asks why the bones of John (the "Elephant Man") Merrick are still on display to medical students in London, suggesting that the time has come to give him a proper resting place. Plus, a look at the role of the new National Disability Council and more witty moments from US comedians.
Write to: viewers can contact the programme at: From the Edge, [address removed]

Contributors

Producer:
Sian Vasey
Series Editor:
Ian MacRae

Five years after the Government allowed children to give their evidence in court on video, the policy is in disarray. Public Eye examines why young victims of abuse are still subject to the trauma of going to court.

Video evidence was intended to make such prosecutions easier but, as Wendy Robbins discovers, the legal system is still failing the alleged victims of sexual abuse, such as a 12-year-old boy who was refused counselling because of fears it could "contaminate" evidence he would be required to give in court. After seeing his alleged abuser in the street, the boy's distress led him to commit suicide.

Contributors

Reporter:
Wendy Robbins
Producer:
Alison Turner
Editor:
Mark Wakefield

On this week's menu, Michael Barry cooks chicken satay and Thai salad, Art Malik completes his search forthe perfect curry in Bradford and two South African chefs demonstrate how to prepare delicacies from ostrich meat as they pull the world's largest wishbone. With Chris Kelly and Jilly Goolden.
Director Linda Nash ; Series producer Tim Hincks
Cruise to New York on the QE2 with Jilly Goolden and Gary Rhodes : p

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barry
Unknown:
Art Malik
Unknown:
Chris Kelly
Unknown:
Jilly Goolden.
Director:
Linda Nash
Producer:
Tim Hincks
Unknown:
Jilly Goolden
Unknown:
Gary Rhodes

Last of a six-part series.

The main problem for the Royal Opera House is an ever-present one: to secure the hundreds of millions of pounds needed to keep the opera and ballet companies performing in London while the Covent Garden building is refurbished. But plenty of people are ready to pay £1,750 to join the Princess of Wales in the audience for the Winter Gala.
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Contributors

Series Director:
Michael Waldman
Executive Producer:
Edward Mirzoeff

Open University
12.30 The Chemistry of the Invisible
(Rpt)
1.00 Seeing through Mathematics
(Rpt)
1.30 History: What Is Its Future?

Night School
2.00 Special Needs: Sex Education; Landmarks
(with subtitles)

BBC Focus
4.00 Teaching and Learning with IT: CD-ROM and Maths Ideas
4.30 Teaching and Learning with IT: IT Needs Girls!
(Rpt)
5.00 English Heritage: Conservation at Work
5.30 Film Education: Sense and Sensibility: from Text to Text

Open University
6.00 Maths: The Binomial Theorem
6.25 Motion: Newton's Laws
(Rpt)
6.50 History: Witting and Unwitting Testimony

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